# Humorous gaff

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/humorous-gaff/116116
**Category:** Apps & Creations
**Created:** [September 18, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/humorous-gaff/116116 "2015-09-18T07:51:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![tootsmcgee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tootsmcgee/32/4433_2.png) [@tootsmcgee](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tootsmcgee)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/humorous-gaff/116116/1 "2015-09-18T07:51:33Z")

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Had a funny thing happen today. Plexconnect suddenly stopped working. Restarted a few things, no dice. Checked logs…oddly silent. Sitting scratching my head I suddenly wondered how long I had been running plexconnect, which made me check my self signed ssl cert. Sure enough… expired! In fact, had expired just an hour before I had tried to watch something.

:))

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### Author: ![DesertFly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/desertfly/32/12695_2.png) [@DesertFly](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DesertFly)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/humorous-gaff/116116/2 "2015-09-18T15:44:35Z")

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Thought they where valid for 10 years, well done.

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### Author: ![wahlman.j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/wahlman.j/32/6441_2.png) [@wahlman.j](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wahlman.j)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/humorous-gaff/116116/3 "2015-09-19T01:03:07Z")

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I believe initially the were only valid for a year:

[PlexConnect/assets/certificates/certificates.txt at master · iBaa/PlexConnect · GitHub](https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/blob/master/assets/certificates/certificates.txt) \<----Needs an update to 10 years so users are not confused?

> openssl req -new -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -out trailers.pem -keyout trailers.key -x509 -days 365 -subj “/C=US/CN=[trailers.apple.com](http://trailers.apple.com)”  
> openssl x509 -in trailers.pem -outform der -out trailers.cer && cat trailers.key \>\> trailers.pem

Now its 10yrs:

> <https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/blob/master/support/OSX/createcert.bash>

```
Trailers - hostname is trailers.apple.com
certificate good for 10 years
openssl req -new -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -outform pem -out ./assets/certificates/trailers.cer -keyout ./assets/certificates/trailers.key -x509 -days 3650 -subj "/C=US/CN=trailers.apple.com" 
cat ./assets/certificates/trailers.cer ./assets/certificates/trailers.key >> ./assets/certificates/trailers.pem

```

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### Author: ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/humorous-gaff/116116/4 "2020-01-08T19:05:02Z")

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